WASHINGTON — D.C.’s expanded teen curfew law expired Sunday night. Tuesday morning, the council is considering extending it for another three months.
Though the District’s juvenile curfew has been in place since 1995, this past July, the D.C. Council passed an expanded teen curfew law on an emergency basis. Emergency legislation lasts three months, so it expired Oct. 5. The expanded curfew started at 11 p.m. every night for anyone under the age of 18, and allowed the mayor to establish emergency juvenile curfews and the DC Police chief to establish extended juvenile curfew zones. The curfew zones are like hot spots, similar to drug free zones. There, the curfew would start at 8 p.m. for four days and apply to groups of nine or more teens.
When the curfew law expires, it reverts to the 1995 law, which applies to minors 16 and younger and lasts from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weeknights and 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. on weekends during the school year, or 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. daily during summer months of July and August…